From the call for the Lives of Data Workshop, to be held January 6-7, 2017, at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi : The key questions which the workshop will explore are: What is data? How is it imagined, collected, archived, developed, scraped, parsed, mined, cleaned, used, interpreted, re-produced, circulated and deleted? How ...

From the call: The LITA Program Planning Committee (PPC) is now accepting innovative and creative proposals for the 2017 Annual American Library Association Conference.  We’re looking for full or half day pre-conference ideas as well as 60- and 90-minute conference presentations. The focus should be on technology in libraries, whether that’s use of, new ideas ...

From the call: Recent developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and interactive applications are creating new social tools and conditions for people to connect and interact; therefore changing the ways we communicate, socialize and collaborate. These new forms of digital enhanced communication and collaboration have been rapidly adopted and integrated into people’s everyday lives. ...

Library Juice Press has issued a call for participation for Human Operators: A Critical Oral History of Technology in Libraries, edited by Melissa Morrone (Brooklyn Public Library). Morrone is seeking participants willing to be interviewed for the book, which intends to “bring out specific critiques of technology as well as more inspiring aspects of what’s ...

Rebecca Onion (Slate) is “in search of historical data.” Inspired by the success of Slate‘s interactive graphic based on the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, Onion seeks datasets that can be used to create “history presented using the interactive power of the web.” If you, in your work as a historian or humanities scholar, have put ...

Dr. Mary Balkun (Seton Hall University) and Dr. Diana Polley (Southern New Hampshire University) have issued a call for a proposed roundtable session at NeMLA 2017 on The Digital Teaching Edition: From the call: This roundtable will generate discussion about the future of the traditional teaching edition; the benefits, drawbacks, and challenges of creating a digital ...

From the call: Digital Humanities Quarterly invites submissions for a special issue on creative pedagogical approaches in the instruction of information visualization. Contributions are invited on methodologies, tools, and resources that practitioners have used to teach any facet of information visualization, which may include (but is not limited to) best practices in design, the use ...

From the call: Day of DH has been generously hosted for the past 2 years by LINHD: Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales de la UNED, and was previously hosted by MATRIX at Michigan State University. See the latest Day of DH site for further information: http://dayofdh2015.uned.es/. centerNet is now accepting proposals for the next ...

Amanda Visconti (Purdue University) shared a form to join Digital Humanities Communities on Slack. Aimed at “anyone interested in both in some combination of ‘digital’ and ‘humanities’ (whatever those mean to you), and some activity such as coding/design/making/building/sysadministery/development at *any* level of experience, including being complete new to the activity.” The group also includes a ...

The Northwestern University Libraries has announced “Sustaining Digital Resources, the Business Model Bootcamp” this summer in Evanston, Illinois between August 8-10, 2016 for Digital Project Leaders. This intensive workshop, which past participants have described as a “mini-MBA where the topic is your project,” takes participants through the steps to developing a strong business case for ...

The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas has released a CFP for its Digital Humanities Forum 2016, on the theme of Places, Spaces, Sites: Mapping Critical Intersections in Digital Humanities. The 2016 forum will take place Saturday, October 1. From the CFP: Notions of place, space, and site are ...